{"id":16296,"date":"2022-04-05T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T09:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=16296"},"modified":"2022-04-05T14:50:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T09:20:51","slug":"un-secy-gen-guterres-important-to-respect-democratic-process-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2022\/04\/05\/un-secy-gen-guterres-important-to-respect-democratic-process-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Secy Gen Guterres: Important to Respect Democratic Process in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said it is important to respect Pakistan&#8217;s democratic process and abide by the constitution in resolving differences, according to a UN spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the constitutional crisis overshadowing Pakistan, Guterres&#8217;s Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said yesterday, &#8220;For now, we will simply underscore the utmost importance of respecting democratic processes and institutions and resolving differences in accordance with the Constitution of Pakistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Facing defeat in the National Assembly against a no-confidence motion, Pakistan&#8217;s Prime Minister Imran Khan had dissolved the Assembly after Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri blocked the opposition move.<\/p>\n<p>The Opposition has challenged the Assembly dissolution before the Supreme Court, which heard the case yesterday but did not give a verdict.<\/p>\n<p>If the Court decides in favour of Khan, elections will have to be held for the Assembly within three months.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan President Arif Alvi who formally dissolved the Assembly at Khan&#8217;s request has said Khan would remain the country&#8217;s Prime Minister till a caretaker was appointed pending the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said it is important to respect Pakistan&#8217;s democratic process and abide by the constitution in resolving differences, according to a UN spokesperson. Asked about the constitutional crisis overshadowing Pakistan, Guterres&#8217;s Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said yesterday, &#8220;For now, we will simply underscore the utmost importance of respecting democratic processes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16298,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16296\/revisions\/16298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}